Wow he was only on this site for a couple of months it definitely felt longer than that :deeper-sadness:
A while ago, someone made an alt to post about their terminal cancer diagnosis. I think about them sometimes and wonder how they're doing.
Yeah, I've thought about posting something to reach out and see how they're doing, but as I recall, they said at the time that they made the alt instead of posting under their usual name because they didn't want their normal fun posting time to turn into a bummer and be all about cancer. So I don't want to ruin that for them.
Anyway, if the person with a terminal cancer diagnosis is reading this, I remember your post and I hope you're doing well :heart-sickle:
It's okay comrades,they just went to the big posting farm upstate 😢
Sometimes you’re the one who experiences the disappearing. But then other times (in my case) you live long enough to become the disappeared. 👻 Honestly though, depression is just what fucked me up. I feel bad for all the people I ever interact with and inevitably fall out of touch with.
This so much. It's almost a year now since I've spoken to some of my fav online groups. I just suddenly stopped coming on for them. I feel especially bad 'cause one of them is really sweet, someone who always made my day, and someone I could've had a life long friendship with. We needed each other and I let her down. It's a habit tbh, I ghost when I need time for myself. She doesn't even know if I'm alive and probably fucking hates me now, but what's new?
I like to think that the folks who are no longer active on this site are doing real-world praxis in their community. On at least one announcement here, someone said they would be more active in real life orgs and that made me feel better.
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I've been the suddenly disappeared internet friend for at least one person
I hope she's still doing ok, but i feel like she wouldn't even recognize me anymore
I vanished right after something extremely bad happened to me because i knew how bad my mental health was getting and knew i was likely to spiral into doing some really unhinged shit
I still have her discord, but... like I said, I kinda don't think she'd even recognize me anymore. I've never been the same, emotionally.It is good opsec to use burner accounts and change them every so often - maybe your favourite poster is still here just under a different name :)
I have to wonder if I'm a missing internet friend to someone. I've been social online since the 90s. Can't even remember most of the people I've talked to.
This site is the first time I care about the people in here. The rest of places I pretty much hated or didn't interact with most people.
Btw what happened to this site?? Back when it was chapo.chat, it was pretty lit. But I haven't been around in a while, and it seems content took a nosedive.
